21 September 2009

There’s a sucker born every minuteEach time the second hand sweeps to the topLike dandelions up they pop,Their ears so big, their eyes so wide.And though my tale is bona fide baloney,Just let me spin it,And ain’t no man who can resist me wait and see‘Cause there’s a sure-as-shooting sucker born a minute,And friends the biggest one, excluding none, is me!

“There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute”Barnum (1980)Performed by Jim DaleWritten by Michael Stewart and Cy Coleman

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is a professor of English at Central Connecticut State University and the host of "Frank, Gil, and Friends" on Tuesday mornings on WFCS 107.7 FM New Britain/Hartford and www.wfcsradio1077.com. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, he earned his H.A.B. and M.A. degrees at Xavier University and his Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America. His books on Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra belie his academic interests in American Puritans (like Cotton Mather and Edward Taylor) and the late 18th-century writers The Connecticut Wits. He has been married for 25+ years, has two daughters.